I know. I have posted on this subject before, but I felt like we, (including myself) needed a reminder! If you are of a certain age, you remember the time when there were no cell phones. There was no internet. If you wanted to learn something, you went to the library and checked out a …
Okay, so I can’t seem to get a consistent yoga practice going for my body, now I need to do face yoga? I’ve been pretty open with my struggle to accept my aging face, and I’m convinced these phones are listening to me bitch about it! Why? Because suddenly, I’m getting ads and suggestions on …
After the slap heard around the world, it’s hard not to think about hair of late. (Or lack thereof.) My daughter and I had a conversation about it in which she shared with me the traumatic experience of hair-loss for women and how devasted her clients are as a result of discovering hair loss. I …
I’m sure, if you are of a certain age, you’ve heard the saying that the key to man’s heart is through his stomach. And of course, back in the day, what it suggested was that if you wanted a man to fall in love with you and to have a happy marriage, you better be …
Pickles and sauerkraut might not be the first foods that come to mind when you think of health foods, but research has increasingly shown that including fermented foods in your diet might offer quite a few health benefits! (Hopefully, hot dogs and hamburgers didn’t come to mind!) In moderation, fermented grapes might even offer some …
If you have been reading my blog for any length of time, I’m sure you have heard me use the phrase “Use it or lose it” in heavy rotation in reference to all matter of things. I have found myself having this conversation repeatedly over the past few months with friends and family. I know …
What it is? Where it is? What is does? I got through 50 some years without ever hearing the word vagus and suddenly, like the words “wellness” and “plant based,” I started to hear the word vagus all the time. Actually, it wasn’t until I started researching the benefits of using essential oils for stress …
A post on prostate health by John Washington In a period of about two weeks in January, I learned that not one, not two, but three men I knew had either recently been diagnosed or had recently had surgery as a result of a prostate cancer diagnosis. Over the past few years, I had already …
One morning back in 2006, the strangest thing happened. I hadn’t written anything since high school, but I woke up with an entire movie in my head. No idea where it came from, but it was there, and I felt the urge to write it down. I needed to get it out of my head …
Inflammation. Inflammation. Inflammation. Another one of those words you hear repeatedly, following “wellness,” and “plant-based!” Quite honestly, I never gave it much thought. I remember learning about inflammatory diets and how they affected your body in my culinary program, but that was 20 years ago and I can’t say I’ve given it much thought since …